Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that a settlement has been reached in regards to Facebook’s privacy practices. Facebook will now have to conduct privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years. This is a result of the mishandling of Facebook users’ private information back in December 2009.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 22, 2011

I certainly agree that privacy is a legitimate concern. On the other hand, if you intend to do any business online, then you have to accept the drawbacks and one of those is a little bit of loss of privacy. You should protect your identity and put a wall around your privacy even if that wall isn’t completely impenetrable.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 23, 2012

The question many business owners now face is whether or not an employers personal social media activities impact on their business. What is new is the request (or demand) for access to social media profiles. If you have a business, would you want access to your employer’s social media account?

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 13, 2011

After all, when Facebook came out, Myspace was the preferred social media forum and, in the space of a few years, it took over. Google is capitalizing on Facebook’s hard times and is making changes to freshen the face of social media and improve on Facebook’s static approach.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 6, 2011

.&# You can’t do a whole lot of interacting with your friends through other social networks. And then there’s the whole privacy issue. 1 social network. .&# The Circles feature allows for greater privacy through Google+. Facebook follows the “proprietary&# system. 1 search engine and the No.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There’s an interesting article on TechCrunch which, while discussing privacy issues related to Google+ and Facebook, also had this to say: Google’s PageRank algorithm is seriously out of date. Those smaller messages are references to Facebook, Twitter and many other social media sites, forums included.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Google+ has made the sign-up feature very simple, and they seem to have addressed privacy issues fairly reasonably. Does this make social media better? Users can choose all circles, some circles, or just themselves. Also, they can choose which members of their circles are visible to the website. What do you think?

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